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2013 Annual Report 2013 Annual Report Table of Contents Officer’s Reports .................................................................................................................................................... 2 2013 Professional Division Report ............................................................................................................................. 3 2013 Research Division Report .................................................................................................................................. 5 2013 Teaching Division Report .................................................................................................................................. 7 2012 American Historical Review Report .................................................................................................................. 9 Committee Reports.............................................................................................................................................. 14 2013 Graduate and Early Career Committee Report ............................................................................................... 15 2013 Advisory Committee on Disability Report ....................................................................................................... 17 2013 Committee on Women Historians Report ....................................................................................................... 19 Council, Divisions, and Committees ..................................................................................................................... 21 2013 Council, Divisions, and Committees ................................................................................................................ 22 Members ............................................................................................................................................................. 27 25-Year Members of the American Historical Association ...................................................................................... 28 50-Year Members of the American Historical Association ...................................................................................... 30 Life Members 2013 .................................................................................................................................................. 34 Support ................................................................................................................................................................ 37 Donors to the Operating Fund 2013 ........................................................................................................................ 38 Donors to the Endowment Fund 2013 ..................................................................................................................... 40 Contributing Members 2013 ................................................................................................................................... 42 Jerry Bentley Prize Donors 2013 .............................................................................................................................. 43 Friedrich Katz Prize Donors 2013 ............................................................................................................................. 46 Wesley-Logan Prize Donors 2013 ............................................................................................................................ 47 Awards, Prizes, Fellowships, and Grants .............................................................................................................. 48 Awards and Prizes ................................................................................................................................................... 49 Fellowships and Grants ........................................................................................................................................... 52 AHA Council Decisions and Actions ...................................................................................................................... 55 AHA Council Decisions and Actions ......................................................................................................................... 56 2013 Financial Statements with Independent Auditor’s Report ........................................................................... 61 Annual Report 2013 Page 1 Officer’s Reports Professional Division Report Research Division Report Teaching Division Report American Historical Review Report Annual Report 2013 Page 2 2013 Professional Division Report Jacqueline Jones, University of Texas at Austin Vice-President of the Professional Division In this my last annual report covering the activities of the Professional Division, I must begin with a note of gratitude to members of the AHA staff for their hard work, high level of professionalism, proactive approach to current issues affecting the discipline, and timely response to concerns of our members. Special thanks are due to Jim Grossman, Sharon Tune, Debbie Doyle, Allen Mikaelian, Julia Brookins, Rob Townsend, and Liz Townsend. I also want to take this opportunity to thank members of the division, including Sara Abosch, Andy Rotter, and Lou Roberts. The PD was pleased with the success of the “Malleable PhD” thread at the 2013 annual meeting in New Orleans, a series of sessions and workshops related to careers outside the academy. These events focused on jobs in academic administration, the federal government, and a variety of other sectors, and on the challenge of transforming graduate education to promote the malleable PhD. During its June meeting Council approved a recommendation from the PD that the Association issue a statement calling on graduate programs and universities to adopt a flexible policy that would allow newly minted PhDs to embargo their online dissertations for up to six years, if they wished to do so. This straightforward statement, which aimed to protect the most vulnerable members of the profession—untenured scholars—elicited strong reactions from members of the Association, from scholars outside the discipline, from university librarians and administrators, and from proponents of unfettered open access policies. Subsequent to the announcement of the statement, members of Council and the AHA staff sought to counter the suggestions of critics that the AHA was insisting on a six- year embargo in all cases (the statement stressed individual choice, not a “one-size-fits-all” policy for all), and to explain some of the unintended consequences that the lack of an embargo might entail— including the reluctance of acquisition editors to consider even revised manuscripts if the dissertation had been online for any length of time, data mining by other scholars, and the decline of the published history monograph. The PD also responded directly to members who sought to consult with us on a wide variety of issues. In several instances we discussed a communication from a single member, and brought that issue to attention of the membership at large, or took action to encourage the Association to modify its policy in some way. Council approved our recommendation that we change the wording related to the AHA practice of highlighting the administrations of those institutions advertising for positions in Perspectives on History and on the AHA web site that remain under sanction by the American Association of University Professors. We placed a notice in Perspectives warning members of spurious journals that offer to publish conference papers by historians and other scholars, often at exorbitant fees. We issued a statement of support for a letter written by the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies protesting a policy by the Russian government that would label any research institute receiving funding from outside the country as a foreign agent. Annual Report 2013 Page 3 The PD also called upon graduate programs to embrace transparency in their placement records. We initiated an effort to revise and update the Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct, an effort that is ongoing, and we conducted a modest survey of AHA members who identified as faculty at for- profit institutions. Other topics of discussion included the charge to the newly formed ad hoc Committee on Adjuncts, and a revision and consolidation of AHA documents and statements related to hiring. We carried through with our successful program of offering childcare subsidies to members attending the annual meeting. We nominated Thomas Rugh (the outgoing chair of the AHA Finance Committee) for the Troyer Steele Anderson Prize, a move that was approved by Council. We received communications from members who had believed that their work had been plagiarized, or that they had been unfairly dismissed from their job. We explained that the division does not investigate such complaints. In response to such concerns the Vice President wrote an article for Perspectives titled “What the PD Can and Cannot Do” (May 2013). Other Perspectives articles included “AHA Job Ads and AAP Censure” (March 2013) and “The Malleable PhD Mini-Conference” (February, 2013). Over the last three years the PD has focused on three main areas of concern—the vagaries of the academic job market, the worsening work conditions and pay that are the lot of non-tenured and non- tenure-track faculty, and the historians’ new digital world. I think the greatest challenge for
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